DOMAIN...

about tasting eden...
Tasting Eden was born around sometime in the summer of 2004 starting off as a project on geocities. For years the readers of my fiction had been requesting that I make my own site but I honestly had no idea how to put one together. With their help I started work for the early stages of this site working with various titles like "Aysia's Bayou" and "Passion's Obsession" for site names. For a moment the site was hosted at Wandering-Hearts but as soon as we were ready to launch that site went under cancelling that plan. Back to geocities I went and with assistance from Vikki from NF.COM and Kahly & Milla from Unspoken Pleasures I started learning some html. My road dog for life, Nastassia, coached me through the photoshop programming until I learned how to make my own graphics and layouts and before you knew it Tasting Eden was born.

In September of 2004 I finally ditched geocities and decided to abandon the plan of being hosted. I scraped up enough money to buy my own domain and then our wonderful DOT COM was added with the help of our server, CleverDot.Com. Overnight the site became a huge success and...well...here we are...

link tasting-eden...
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[http://tasting-eden.com]

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past layouts...
I've made so many layouts that I don't even give them numbers. I've lost count a long time ago but the following are a few that I still had saved on my computer and decided to showcase for you so you can see how far I've come...or backtracked...

Version: Ribbons of Gold feat. Christina Milian
I wanted to create something classy and elegant yet vibrant and risque. When I came upon these photos of Christina Milian I thought they were perfect. They were sexy yet still very classy and that was the look I was hoping to achieve.

Version: Cater 2 U feat. Justin Timberlake
Inspired by the song by Destiny's Child I was just in a creative mode and was in of my good Justin slumps (I fall in and out of like with him as most of you know). I was in love with the photographs of him and just thought there was nothing sexier than that man in black and white...damn. Its still sexy...!

Version: Coffee Break feat. Justin Timberlake
I decided to switch up my usual triad top graphic and go for something completely innovative. I was tired of all the sites looking the same so I set out to be different. With Coffee Break I wanted to put the viewers in the mindset of just going to a local cafe to chill out, drink their coffee, eat their sweets, and read a good book. If they were lucky there'd be a stage performance and for a while I had Justin's unreleased song, "I Just Wanted You To Know" playing upon entering the site. It was perfect because of its grittiness and extra voices in the background like a real club atmosphere.